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...appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court."The shameful errors that plague Ms. McCarthy's case - race bias, ineffectivecounsel and courts unwilling to exercise meaningful oversight of the system - reflect problems that are central to the...

...strategies. Granted, it also contains provisions favorable to inmates, including one penalizing lawyers who provide ineffectivecounsel, but that fig leaf does not mitigate the danger of a bill that, in effect, creates a fast track to the death...

...Balentine's attorney, for a stay of execution to reconsider a ruling last month to deny the defendant's ineffectivecounsel claim. Balentine killed three teenagers, shooting each in the head, as they slept in an Amarillo home in 1999...

...Rodriguez, the defendant argues in a filing to the 7th Court of Appeals in Amarillo. He claims McNeeley provided ineffectivecounsel, and that his lawyer should have fought harder to get him a shorter sentence. "Considering the damaging testimony...

...Another attorney filed a petition asking that Kerr be allowed to file a second writ application because he had ineffectivecounsel for the first one. The criminal appeals court, in a 5-3 decision, turned down the petition. Kerr avoided...

...where he had left the child. According to court records, Rodriguez, 22, argued his trial attorney provided ineffectivecounsel for several reasons including failure to offer evidence to hopefully reduce the sentence handed down. Rodriguez...

...that the defendants in the drug case were given ineffectivecounsel. Walker said that all of the defendants, including...that he was being sued by one of his clients for ineffectivecounsel before the case has even come to trial. "I don't...

...impeached Coleman's testimony. In Jackson's case, the court also asked for information on whether Jackson had ineffectivecounsel who didn't investigate Coleman's background and whether the state failed to correct known false or misleading...

...Gonzales on clemency petitions "repeatedly failed to appraise the governor of crucial issues in the cases at hand: ineffectivecounsel, conflict of interest, mitigating evidence, even actual evidence of innocence." The attorney general should...